Eight seafarers who were abducted by West African pirates from a Greek tanker have been released after three weeks in captivity. The Hellenic Coast Guard has announced that the seafarers, who were captured from the […]
A very large crude carrier (VLCC) owned and operated by COSCO Shipping Energy Transportation has collided with a feeder container vessel in the Singapore Strait. The VLCC, 2004-built 297,376-dwt Xin Jin Yang, was transporting crude […]
South Korea has become the latest country to send its defence forces to the Strait of Hormuz amid growing tensions between the US and Iran. The defence ministry said on 21 January 2020 that the […]
Ten Myanmarese seafarers have been rescued by China’s Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) and a passing container vessel after they abandoned ship. The Fujian provincial branch of the MSA said that it received a call from […]
One of two South Korean-owned ships detained in Indonesia has been released after more than three months. Representatives of South Korean conglomerate Daelim Corporation notified SAS that its LPG carrier, DL Lily, has been released from […]
A barge carrying scrap metal, en route from Singapore to Vietnam, was robbed twice in the Singapore Strait on the same day. An alert from the Regional Co-operation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery […]
When the 10,491 gt Marshall Island tanker Asphalt Spirit suffered engine failure off the Queensland coast en route from Korea to Australia on 31 January 2019, the master took six hours to report to authorities. […]
Poorly designed safety equipment, outdated regulations, and dangerous goods misdeclarations make container ship fires significantly more treacherous, according to a panel of industry experts Cargo fires have long been a cause for concern in the […]
Pirate abductions in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) went up by more than 50% in 2019, with a sharp rise in the fourth quarter, according to the annual report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). […]
China’s maritime search-and-rescue (SAR) centre said that its branch in Xiamen port went to the aid of CS Future, a 2010-built 34,000 dwt general cargo ship that had ran aground and suffered flooding in its […]
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